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Metal wires, cables, and bus-bar used for carrying electric current. Conductors may be solid or stranded, that is,built up by a assembly of smaller solid conductors.
Industry:Energy
The collection of nations that have ratified the Framework Convention on Climate Change(FCCC). The primary role of the COP is to keep implementation of the FCCC under review and make the decisions necessary for its effective implementation. Also see Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC).
Industry:Energy
Geographic information containing transmission line, substation, and terminal information. Its hows the normal operating voltages and includes information about other operational and political boundaries.
Industry:Energy
A plant designed to produce electricity only. See also Combined heat and power (CHP) plant.
Industry:Energy
A condition that occurs when insufficient transfer capacity is available to implement all of the preferred schedules for electricity transmission simultaneously.
Industry:Energy
The household paid the electric utility company directly for all household uses of electricity (such as water heating, space heating, air-conditioning, cooking, lighting, and operating appliances.) Bills paid by a third party are not counted as paid by the household.
Industry:Energy
The sum of the continuous ratings or the capacities for a system, part of a system, or a customer's electric power consuming apparatus.
Industry:Energy
The amount of kilowatthours sold in a given period of time; usually grouped by classes of service, such as residential, commercial, industrial, and other. "Other" sales include sales for public street and highway lighting and other sales to public authorities, sales to railroads and railways, and interdepartmental sales.
Industry:Energy
The physical connexion (e.g.,transmission lines, transformers, switch gear, etc.) between two electric systems permitting the transfer of electric energy in one or both directions.
Industry:Energy
The direct process end use in which electricity is used to cause a chemical transformation. Major uses of electrochemical process occur in the aluminium industry in which alumina is reduced to molten aluminium metal and oxygen, and in the alkalies and chlorine industry, in which brine is separated into caustic soda, chlorine, and hydrogen.
Industry:Energy